State Election in the Saarland 1990

Judgement on parties and politicians. Current political questions.

Topics: most important problems of the state; intent to participate in
the coming state parliament election; party preference (rank order and
list procedure); party inclination and party identification; election
participation in the last state parliament election; sympathy scale for
the parties at federal and state level as well as for the top
politicians in the state; satisfaction with the state government, the
opposition and the Federal Government in Bonn; attitude to an absolute
SPD majority in the state parliament election; preferred coalitions;
preference for prime minister; comparison of credibility, energy,
modernity and sense of responsibility of the top candidates Lafontaine
and Toepfer; preference for Lafontaine as candidate for chancellor of
the SPD; judgement on the economic situation in the state and in
comparison with the entire Federal Republic; expected changes in the
economic situation in the state; problem-solving ability of an SPD or
CDU state government in questions of economy, environmental protection,
the job market and the housing market as well as personal satisfaction
with the current situation in these areas; job security; understanding
for emigrants from the GDR; feared disadvantages in the job market as
well as housing market through emigrants; residential status; city
size; judgement on privileges for emigrants from the GDR; assumed
taking seats in the state parliament by the FDP, the Greens as well as
the Republicans and judgement on this; most active party supporters in
the election campaign; significance of the state government for the
future of the state; assumed election winner and probability of an
absolute majority for the SPD; college degree; journeymen´s test; union
membership; religiousness.